{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "thinking about the more psychological trauma-themed grimdark antiheroes of darker 90s comics\nThe Crow was almost like trauma as...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/637502970510065664/", "html": "<p>thinking about the more psychological trauma-themed grimdark antiheroes of darker 90s comics</p><p>The Crow was almost like trauma as empowering you with a sense of purpose, but it was always a &lsquo;70s rape-revenge plot in goth makeup and that fit with this early-90s romance of the broken \u2013 grunge, &ldquo;heroin chic&rdquo;, the normalization of &ldquo;depression&rdquo; now we had Prozac</p><p>John Constantine they kept piling things onto only to suddenly clear out in some sort of breakthrough, because there wasn&rsquo;t anywhere else to go with it</p><p>This is distinct from the issue I think the Walking Dead comics inherited from Preacher, where you&rsquo;re not really sure how to develop your characters so you just end up piling physical mutilations on them</p>"}